Anatololacerta pelasgiana (MERTENS, 1959)
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Anatololacerta pelasgiana
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| Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Lacertinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Pelasgian Rock Lizard |
| Synonym | Lacerta oertzeni pelasgiana MERTENS 1959 Lacerta danfordi pentanisiensis WETTSTEIN 1964 Lacerta danfordi quandttaylori BÖRNER 1974 Lacerta oertzeni pelasgiana — EISELT & SCHMIDTLER 1987: 313 Lacerta oertzeni pelasgiana — KASPAREK 1990javascript:void(0) Lacerta danfordi pelasgiana — ENGELMANN et al 1993 Lacerta oertzeni budaki — MULDER 1995 Lacerta danfordi – BARAN & ATATÜR 1998 Lacerta danfordi – BARAN & KUMLUTAŞ 1999 Lacerta oertzeni budaki — TIEDEMANN & GRILLITSCH 1999 Archaeolacerta danfordi – SINDACO et al. 2000 Lacerta oertzeni budaki – KUMLUTAŞ et al. 2003 Lacerta danfordi pelasgiana — BARAN et al. 2001 Lacerta oertzeni pelasgiana — SCHLÜTER 2003 Lacerta oertzeni pelasgiana — EDELMAN & FRANK 2005 Anatololacerta oertzeni budaki — FRANZEN & GLAW 2007 Anatololacerta oertzeni pelasgiana – FRANZEN et al. 2008 Lacerta danfordi – GÜÇLÜ & OLGUN 2008 Phoenicolacerta oertzeni budaki — BÖHME 2010: 100 Phoenicolacerta oertzeni budaki — BÖHME 2014: 149 Anatololacerta oertzeni – BARAN et al. 2012 Anatololacerta oertzeni pelasgiana — SCHLÜTER 2010 Anatololacerta oertzeni quandttaylori — BELLATI et al. 2014 Anatololacerta pelasgiana — BELLATI et al. 2014 Anatololacerta pelasgiana budaki — MAYER 2015 Anatololacerta pelasgiana – KALAENTZIS et al. 2018 Anatololacerta pelasgiana — KARAKASI et al. 2021 |
| Distribution | Turkey (SW Anatolian Peninsula south to the Büyük Menderes River, east to Çobanisa/Isparta), Greece (incl. Rhodes, Symi, Kasos) Type locality: “Hafenmauer der Stadt Rhodos, Insel Rhodos” budaki: Turkey; Type locality: 5 km N Cobanisa (= 25 km NE Elmali), Vilayet Antalya, Türkei, ca. 1200 m elevation. |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: SMF 55228, male Holotype: NMW 26751; Paratypes: ZSM 54/1983, female, BMNH, GNM, NMW, ZDEU, ZFMK [budaki] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: “Unterscheidet sich von der östlich angrenzenden budaki sspec. nov. u. a. durch die höheren Werte bei den Temporalia und Femoralporen sowie durch die Tendenz, nur eine helle vertebrale Tüpfel-Längsreihe im Jugendkleid auszuprägen; von der südöstlich angrenzenden finikensis sspec. nov. u. a. durch das längere 1. Supratemporale, durch die eben erwähnte vertebrale Tüpfelung und die besonders juvenil dorsale Längsstreifung; Unterschiede zur Nominatrasse siehe bei dieser (Neufassung, vgl. Tabelle 3, Taf. 2: 1-3).” (Eiselt & Schmidtler 1987: 313). |
| Comment | Synonymy: after BELLATI et al. 2014 and Karakasi et al. 2021. The name Anatololacerta oertzeni quandttaylori was used by BELLATI et al. 2014 although these authors concluded that it shouldd be included in Anatololacerta pelasgiana. Specimens of the type-locality of A. budaki (2.5 km N Çobanisa) are assigned genetically to A. pelasgiana. Therefore, the name A. budaki should be synonymized with A. pelasgiana (Karakasi et al. 2021). The Zoological Record doesn’t list Lacerta oertzeni WERNER, 1904 (at least not in the years of or around 1904). See BAUER & GÜNTHER 1995 for more details on the types. The status of Lacerta danfordi pentanisiensis WETTSTEIN 1964 is still unclear but likely belongs to A. pelasgiana (BELLATI et al. 2014). Distribution: see map in Karakasi et al. 2021: 3, 26 (Fig. 1, Fig. S1) NCBI TaxonID: 1550039 [budaki] |
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